Improved drawer tor furniture



G.;F. JOYCE.

DRAWER FOR FURNITURE.

N0.10Z,826. Patented May 10, 1870.

1111111. Iii ii esoaenr. JOYCE, or BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

Letters Patent No. 102.826, dated May 10, 1870.

IMPROVED DRAWER FOR FURNITURE.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of thesame.

To all persons to whom these presents may come.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE F. J OYCE, of Boston,

in the county of Sufiolk and State of Massachusetts, have made a new anduseful invention having reference .to Drawers for Furniture; and dohereby declare the same to be fully described in the followingspecitiecation, and represented in the accompanying drawiigs, of which Figure 1denotes atop view of a drawer and its case provided with my invention,the drawer being exhibited as closed. I

Figure 2 is a similar view of the parts as theyappear when the drawer isopen.

Figure 3 is a longitudinal section of the drawer and case. I

The drawer is to hesupposed to be supported in its case by side groovesin the usual manner, so as to be capable of being slid into .or drawnout from the case.

In carrying out my invention, (whose purpose is to support the drawer Awhen pulled nearly if not entirely out of its case B,) I pivot or hingeto the drawer A, at one of its rear corners, an arm, 0, to extend, whenthe drawer is open or drawn, nearly if not entirely out of its caseunderneath, and bear against the upper edge of the next adjacentside-groove, D, for supporting and guiding the drawer; and, furthermore,

' l pivot to such arm, ator'near itsouter extremity, one end of arod, E,whose opposite end I also pivot to the frame 01' case, the pivot of thislast-mentioned end being so arranged as to cause the rod, when thedrawer is fully open, to maintain the arm within the groove of the case,and also, when the drawer is closed, to maintain the arm folded againstthe rear end or back i part of the drawer.

The arm, during the movement of the drawer into the case, will be turnedthrough an arc of one-fourth of a circle.

I usually apply one of such arms to each of the rear corners of thedrawer, and provide each of the said arms and the case with a governingor controlling rod,

as described. The drawings exhibit two such arms, and two such rodsapplied to the drawing, the auxiliary arm being shown at G, and its rodat E.

The two controlling rods E E are so arranged, obliquely to the case anddrawer that such rods cross one another in any position of the drawer,whether it be either fully open or fully closed, or partially open.

\Vhen two arms and two rods are used, arranged as represented, the armsserve not only as supports for the drawer when it is. fully open, butthe arms and rods serve to centralize the drawer with respect to thecase, during a movement of the'drawer either inward or outward,relatively to the case. theyoperate to maintain the drawer inparallelism with 3 the opposite sides of the opening for its reception,and

thereby prevent the drawer from binding or rubbing against either ofsuch sides, causing it, when in movement, to slide easily into or out ofthe case.

I am aware that slides have been applied to a drawer and its case, suchslides, when the drawer was open,

being-extended into grooves in the drawer and case.

Therefore, I make no claim to such devices, which differ materially, inboth their arrangement and operation, from my invention.

I claim- The arm 0 and its controlling rod E, applied to andarrangedwit-h a drawer. A and its case B, in manner and so as to operatetherewith, substantially as speci-' fied.

Also, t-he two arms 0 O and their controlling rods E E, applied to adrawer and its case, and arranged relatively to each other and with thedrawer and case,

in manner and so as to operate substantially as hereinbefore described,and as represented in the accompanying drawings.

GEO. F. JOYCE.

Witnesses R. H. EDDY, J. R. Snow.

In other words,

